Enzyme Catalysts
In this lesson, students will explore the impact of a changing environment on the reaction rates of an enzyme.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/enzyme-catalysts
Capacitors
Students explore the characteristics of capacitors. The activity begins with a look at the movement of charge in a parallel-plate capacitor and the effect of voltage on charge. Following the definition of capacitance, students explore how plate area, plate separation, and dielectrics affect capac...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/capacitors
Damped and Driven Harmonic Motion
Students explore the properties of waveforms representing damped and driven simple harmonic motion. First, they identify the functional form of the damping in a simple harmonic oscillator. Then, they discover the relationship between the driving frequency, the fundamental frequency, and the dampi...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/damped-and-driven-harmonic-motion
First Law of Thermodynamics
In this activity, students explore the first law of thermodynamics and apply it to various thermodynamics processes in order to calculate heat, work, and changes in internal energy of a very simple system: an ideal gas enclosed in a container fitted with a movable piston.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/first-law-of-thermodynamics
Vernier - Transpiration
In this lesson, students will use the gas pressure sensor to observe the overall transpiration process in plants.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--transpiration
Like Moths Around a Flame
In this lesson, students examine data about moths and draw conclusions of how the environment impacts their populations.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/like-moths-around-a-flame
Fill the Vase
Students interpret graphs of empirical data with respect to rate of change of the height of water in vases of different shapes that are being filled at a constant rate. Students are provided with a range of graphs and vases. For each graph they must reshape the vase in order to match the volume –...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/fill-the-vase
Vernier - Boyle's law
The primary objective of this experiment is to determine the relationship between the pressure and volume of a confined gas. The gas we use will be air, and it will be confined in a syringe connected to a Pressure Sensor (see Figure 1). When the volume of the syringe is changed by moving the pist...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/vernier--boyles-law
Which Dog Is Roundest? | Texas Instruments
...s in our house, Holly and Blue are the two dogs that best qualify for the descriptor “round.” Holly is a 7-year-old Chihuahua with a short temper who comes in at a staggering 17 lbs. Blue is a 5-year-old corgi with a friendly personality and a loud bark, who is beginning to develop the dreaded “b...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/dog-day-which-dog-is-roundest
Summer Reading List for Math Teachers | Texas Instruments
...hot summer reading! “Rise of the Rocket Girls” by Nathalia Holt Start off with a bang with this true story about the women “human computers” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s and ’50s. Follow the story of how this elite group of young women transformed rocket de...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/summer-reading-for-math-teachers
Helping Students Save for Retirement | Texas Instruments
...ible about their retirement savings. Meet Harold Peters. He started investing in the late 1950s and early ’60s, but at that time there were large commissions and fees … sometimes as much as 8% per trade! So, he started to study retirement systems and over many years he recognized that fees ca...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/retirement-planning-program
5 Educators Using Robotics To Teach Math | Texas Instruments
...vehicle. It’s fun, it’s cool, and best of all, students of all ages with no prior coding experience can get the Rover to move and follow their coding commands in just a few minutes! Let’s take a look at a few specific activities where educators are effectively using the Rover to elevate student...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/using-robotics-to-teach-math
Expressions of Love for TI-Cares™ Support | Texas Instruments
...oan Program. These customers definitely know their way to our hearts! 🌹 “LaShun was refreshing to deal with. She was willing to step through a complicated problem over a few calls to full resolution. She was friendly, she was kind and demonstrated knowledge. She is someone that I will love...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/ti-cares-customer-support-love
Why Buy a Graphing Calculator?
...tom-table-wrapper .right-block p{border-top:solid #555 2px}.custom-table-wrapper p{margin-bottom:0}.wb .wb-header a{height:auto}} As the most recommended graphing calculator brand by teachers, Texas Instruments (TI) has a long history of helping students succeed in math and science. When co...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/why-buy-graphing-calculator
How To Avoid 5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes | Texas Instruments
...r unit plans where the activities and milestones are all mapped out. Many factors go into writing a successful proposal, but remembering these five common mistakes and knowing what questions to ask yourself can help make things go a bit smoother. Let’s countdown the top five mistakes. ...https://education.ti.com/en/bulletinboard/2023/5-common-grant-writing-mistakes
Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time graphs. They learn to change the shape of the plot by adjust...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/match-me
Segment Addition Postulate
The purpose of this handout is to provide students an opportunity to learn the keystrokes involved using the TI-Nspire and to verify the Segment Addition Postulate.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/segment-addition-postulate
Inflection Points
Students investigate points of inflection on a function and its first and second derivatives, and discover how they relate to each other.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/inflection-points
Discovering the Circumcenter and Centroid of a Triangle
The students will find the circumcenter by constructing perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle. They will also find the centroid by constructing the medians of a triangle and discover that the centroid is 2/3 of the distance from each vertex along each median.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/discovering-the-circumcenter-and-centroid-of-a-triangle
Points of Concurrency in Triangles
In this activity, students will use their Nspire handhelds to discover the different points of concurrencies in triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities to discover the circumcenter, incenter, and centroid of triangles.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/points-of-concurrency-in-triangles
Properties of Isosceles Triangles
In this activity and by using the Nspire handhelds, students will discover the different properties and attributes of Isosceles Triangles. The students will take advantage of the dynamic capabilities of this very unique handheld to explore the different attributes of the Isosceles Triangle.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/properties-of-isosceles-triangles
Circle Geometry: Property of the Segments of Two Chords Intersecting within a Circle
Students will be able to discover the property of two chords segments intersecting within a circle. They will discover the rule about the segments geometrically, numerically, and graphically. Lesson will touch on line of best fit to explore the relationship between the segments of the two chords.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/circle-geometry-property-of-the-segments-of-two-chords-intersecting-within-a-circle
Arcs and Central Angles of Circles
Students discover the central angles of circles plus minor and major arcs.https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/arcs-and-central-angles-of-circles
Triangle Sides & Angles
Students will explore side and angle relationships in a triangle. First, students will discover where the longest (and shortest) side is located relative to the largest (and smallest) angle. Then, students will explore the Isosceles Triangle Theorem and its converse. Finally, students will determ...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/triangle-sides--angles
The Pythagorean Theorem—and More
Students construct a triangle and find all angle and side measures. They practice dragging the vertices to form certain types of triangles, and then they confirm the Pythagorean Theorem for right triangles. Moreover, they discover the types of triangle that occur when c2 a2 + b2 or when c2 > a2 +...https://education.ti.com/en/activity/detail/the-pythagorean-theoremand-more